Current mood:

annoyed

Two itsy-bitsy wanks.
I don't seem to hang out in the right places to find bigass wanks... but small ones can be cute.

MORE POTTERSUES WANK:

As well as Tom Riddle's beautiful daughters Serenity and Anastasia, pottersues occasionally posts stories that actually have decent OC's in them. Not often, because there aren't that many of them, and probably at least partially because when she does, things get wanky.

So not long ago, the Sue of the Day was a Quidditch-playing Hufflepuff OC who falls for Goyle (!?). It was pretty decent, so she rated it a 'wow!', which is the rating given to anything that's really too good to be a Sue. Halfway down the comments page, the readers start bitching: posting well-developed characters on pottersues will destroy the fandom!

IMO, it's detrimental to the cause of good fanfiction to label an original female character as "Mary Sue" just because she's an original female character.

The 'cause' of good fanfiction. Pottersues is gonna change the world, man.

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GROBANIAN WANK:

'Grobanian Wank'... that sounds like a sausage. This one is itsy, but it just makes me so proud to see my own fandom wanking!

Some background: Grobania is the land peopled by Grobanites, who are the fans of Josh Groban. Josh Groban is an unbelievably pretty man with an unbelievably pretty voice. He sings in four languages, plays the piano and the drums, and all things considered is probably about six times as talented as any human being has a right to be. I'm not sure what the average JG fan is like, but I have a feeling these people wouldn't touch Italian Ballads with a 12-foot-pole if it weren't for the cute face attatched (and I'm speaking from experience here... *shuffles feet*).

So he just released a new album that's thematically a bit different from his first one. It's been out a couple of weeks now, and is coming up against the fact that no matter what you do, somebody, somewhere, is not gonna like it.

In this case, 'somebody' was People magazine.

Well!

"They said WHAT???"

"Reviewers dun know s***" (yep - self-censored)

"they're all retarded"

"They just don't understand true, beautiful music anymore"

"the Spanish and Italian tracks are way sappier than any of the English ones." "But italian manages to make sap sound so much more profound."

Oasis, Avril Lavigne, Harry Potter, and Pirates of the Carribean are all compared to Josh for various reasons, the voices of sanity are ignored, the fandom has a love/hate relationship with Clay Aiken, and the devoted Grobanites reassure each other of their 1337 musical taste! I'm watching for this one to grow.

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Excessive Application of Sueage! *giggle.* Sueage

croik
2003-11-22 06:57 pm UTC (link)

I have to say, I think the Potter dude has a point. I don't want to think that there are "good" Sues out there. *shudder* Some are better written than others, to be sure, but it does kind of imply that all original characters are a Sue to some capacity. Which would mean...I have an army of Sues and Stus at my disposal! We could take over the world!!!

*BWA HA HA HA!*

Unless, of course, you had an original character who didn't interact with any of the original cast whatsover, was ugly, had no talent, and never did anything extraordinary or interesting. I don't think that could be considered a Sue, but then...where's the fun in that? ^o^

-Croik

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	*Re: Excessive Application of Sueage! giggle.* Sueage chash** 2003-11-22 07:36 pm UTC (link)
	Who's that in your icon? I am deeply curious. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	*Re: Excessive Application of Sueage! giggle.* Sueage croik** 2003-11-23 01:13 am UTC (link)
	It's Seig Warheit from Chaos Legion. snuggles him (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	*Re: Excessive Application of Sueage! giggle.* Sueage chash** 2003-11-23 06:07 am UTC (link)
	wants (Reply to this)(Parent)

	bunny 2003-11-22 08:21 pm UTC (link)
	they're all retarded...i think this CD is the best cd i've ever heard, even over the mozart requiem...and yes, even over any oasis album No fucking words. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	darkrose 2003-11-22 08:26 pm UTC (link)
	i think this CD is the best cd i've ever heard, even over the mozart requiem... Ummm... I have Groban's first CD in my car changer now, along with Mozart's Requiem. I like them both, but somebody needs to take a huge perspective pill. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	pepperpot 2003-11-23 01:13 am UTC (link)
	Over MOZART'S REQUIEM?! facedesk No words at all. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2003-11-23 06:35 am UTC (link)
	What makes me the saddest is the implication that only one recording exists of Mozart's Requiem. Oh, the humanity. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: pepperpot 2003-11-23 07:14 am UTC (link)
	wide, ~~vacant~~ innocent eyes You mean there's more than ONE? Golly. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2003-11-23 07:06 pm UTC (link)
	Not only that, but since Mozart died before he finished it, there's more than one version. The ~~vacant~~ mind, it boggles. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	gaisce 2003-11-23 02:02 am UTC (link)
	At least it wasn't comparing Avril Lavigne's to Mozart's Requiem...because I think I'd be committing seppuku at that link of tastes. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	eljuno 2003-11-23 07:01 pm UTC (link)
	OMGWTF?!? NOT OVER OASIS! The Gallagher Brothers are GHOD, I TLEL YOU! (Reply to this)(Parent)

katsaris
2003-11-22 09:19 pm UTC (link)

Yay! I've been quoted in fandom_wank! That's one life ambition I can strike off my list. ;-)

(though I think you could have found wankier stuff than this one at my own lj)

"The 'cause' of good fanfiction."

Would "goal" be a better choice of words? Me non-native-English-speaker, me not always using best word choice. :-)

And, yeah I do think it's kinda of a good thing if we have good pieces of fanfiction around to read. Rather than, you know, only bad ones.

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	tinybubbles 2003-11-23 12:16 pm UTC (link)
	I'm sorry to disappoint (?) you but your "wank" was far too reasoned and well-put to be considered truly wanky IMO. But keep working at it, I'm sure you'll get there. ;-) (That goes for you too, Irony!) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	eljuno 2003-11-23 07:03 pm UTC (link)
	I would never have guessed you were a non-native English speaker...your spelling and grammer is better than most of us. (Us = native Anglophones) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2003-11-24 05:30 am UTC (link)
	True story: best English I ever heard was from two Danish girls I met in Venice. I didn't even realize they weren't native speakers until I overheard them conversing with each other in not-English. 'Swhat comes of starting the language at age 5, I guess. (Reply to this)(Parent)

musette
2003-11-23 05:33 am UTC (link)

Dude, Joshie Groban wank?? That has just made my week.

Now I admit I got the CD like three days after it came out because I adore his voice (and yes, he is more talented than any human being has the right to be, as well as to damn cute), but what the fucking shit? How do Mozart and Oasis end up in the same sentence EVER? It's depressing in way, all the moderately sane people I know who like his voice avoid the fandom like the fucking plague because most of his fangirlies wouldn't know a diminuendo from their own asshole.

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	isntitironic 2003-11-23 07:20 am UTC (link)
	Neither can I. ^_^ I just like the music. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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musette
2003-11-23 07:58 am UTC (link)

Heh, I sound like a snotty beeotch above. I am all for people who aren't music theory afficionados or whatever liking anyone's music, thta's one of the things I think is really cool about the classical cross over sub-genre, because it gets people interested in music that can be intimidating otherwise. But dude, why do the stupid fangirls want to use some sort of high brow, complicated justification for why they like it? If that's not why, just say that's not why and don't make yourself look like a tool.

And now I'm ranting. ::facepalm::

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	littlekitsch 2003-11-24 07:34 pm UTC (link)
	Icon love! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: musette 2003-11-25 02:28 am UTC (link)
	pets the Commies What can I say, you can't not love them. (Reply to this)(Parent)